FIRST to film at KERN - FULL Shop Tour
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2019
- Buckle up and get ready for ANOTHER never-before seen shop tour! (Check out the Tornos shop tour as well). This time, we're headed to Kern in Germany to tour their K1 AND K2 factory. I'd like to thank Simon Eickholt, CEO at Kern Microtechnik, for taking the group of us around the Kern K1 factory. He imparted so much knowledge on and off camera, and we were very grateful to get to spend a few hours with him and members of his team, including Marvin (who helped me make a knife in the day 1 video). Be sure to check out the rest of the videos created about this trip, they can be found in the cards of this video or on our TH-cam channel.
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Our Products: www.grimsmoknives.com/
John Grimsmo Knives Instagram: / johngrimsmoknives
Erik Grimsmo Instagram: / erik_grimsmoknives
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Gear we use:
Canon M50
Zoom F1-LP Field Recorder
Rode VideoMicro Directional Recorder with Dead Cat
JOBY GorillaPod Compact Tripod with Ballhead
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Angelo Fisher Instagram: / afisherknives
Erin Kelly Instagram: / producingerin
Skye: / skyemfg
Jo (pronounced Yo): / jovonrosen
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What you are seeing here is an example of doing business the non-american way. I guarantee you there is no CEO and board that are leeching millions and billions of dollars in profits out of this company, making decisions based on what will improve their stock price this quarter. This is illustrated by the comments about the dedicated workstations, quality of toilet paper, employee facilities, dedication to past customers and their old equipment and non-toxic work environment. It is obvious that they are not run by the mantra of "IF your not growing, your dying". You can see this through the comment the sales guy made about only producing 50 machines a year, so they can assure high quality for their customers and allowing for resources to be available if their customers need something special. There is an obvious vision for longevity and quality over massive growth and profit extraction. This way of doing business means that you company will be around, serving customers and employees for a millennia and more.
Let me put a 38 minute hold on being productive today. Congrats on the Swiss lathe!
These European Series of videos are the best. Absolutely amazing. Thank you for these Tours
Thanks for this amazing tour!
Thanks for sharing this its freaking amazing keep up all the amazing work and can wait to see your Swiss running soon
Thanks for the great tour of Kern...!
THANK YOU for making this! This is so inspiring!
The 8:50 discussion ... yes you can make a machine out of Invar but in the end, aluminium gives you more control and in the end just slightly more precision (i mean ultra ultra precision) if you do the cooling right.. slightly unintuitive but we've made the most precise stuff with aluminium. Of course the ultimate material would be diamond and I wait for the day when we can make large structural parts out of big blocks of possibly monocrystalline diamond... unmatched heat conductivity and thermal expansion. There are composites being made with diamond that show some promise but I think it won't work out at the end.. you need the real thing :D
Hi what a nice tour, this was a great visit for you, the machines are nice to see and the details are fun as well. Lance & Patrick.
It bougles the mind how far we have addvanced in machines since i started 65 year's ago.😨
Cool machine, -shop and video thanks for taking us with you 👍🏼
_We lost some good guys in the shitty fights for a minimum Toilet paper thickness in the German CNC-Machine Industry_ 😂
such a fantastic company... holy crap
I wish them great success, and that their model is borrowed by other companies, I think everyone would like to work in a place like that.
KERN is a work place you would be Very Happy to work in.
Thank you so much for showing us around.
I am humbled to see such an excellent working environment.
It was also good to see the Three Musketeers together.
love that koncept kern is build on....
fantastic machines by way....
@28:26 such a precision machinery...
...and here is a piece of flat bar welded to steel square tubing. :D
Now I can say that my diy cnc have something in cummon with KERN machines.
10:50 According to the numbers given, the cooling removes (4200 Joule/(K*kg))*(0.1K)*(1 kg/L)*(160 L/min) / (60 s/min) = 1120 Watts of heat. Since this keeps the temperature of the machine constant, that must be equal to the maximum electric power dissipated in the motors of the machine.
Got this question about thermal expansion in my head for so long now..finally I know how they do it.
Ok but seriously whoever took all the time to blur bystanders' faces - Erin I assume - deserves credit for these tours being public; European privacy laws are super-sticky.
It would have been Kern who requested the worker's faces be blurred. John would have sent the final edited footage to Kern, after it was edited, and Kern would have proofed it, approved it for release, and then John would be able to publish it to TH-cam.
@@xenonram It's the German law. Or written consent by any individual in the video would be needed.
@@laurensschu Kern's in Austria, aren't they? But ja, German law is now the EU law..
@@peteabc1 No. Kern is in Germany. Eschenlohe to be precise.
What an amazing company .
I would love to work for them and last but least I would love to have 1 of every machine they make.
For anyone not familiar with the Kelvin scale, a difference of 0.1 Kelvin is the same as a difference of 0.1° Celsius (or 0.18° Fahrenheit)
There's a lot of energy being put into concentrated parts of that system. That's a very impressive stat. Sounds like each cooling circuit is regulated which is the complicated way to do it but appears to work really well.
I keep watching this over and over. I will own one of these dang it.
Same! Let me know if/when you do 👍😊
KERN is like a Company Management professor's wet dream... :O
how so? am curious
John, Switzerland and Germany are a little bit warmer in climate than Canada. Plus in the winter the sky lights might get completely covered by snow. On top of that the winter days are so short. Maybe extra efficient LED lighting might be a good alternative to the skylights. Have to say that sky lights are very nice when conditions are right.
It snows in the Alps, I'm not sure what you're getting at but LEDs cannot take the place of natural light.
Looks like a dream company to work at! Might apply once i get my degree, if only it wasn't that far away.
I would still try to apply because if they choose to employ you u can still move
33:36 looks like a hand scrapped table. I like the Kern philosophy and the fact they are very into supporting their legacy tools and machines. Not many manufacturers get excited about fixing up one of their 40 year old models.
It's flaked with an electric flaker which is odd for a machine bed as it is done to retain oil although sometimes done to give a scraped look to ground machinery. That's an EDM machine though so not one of theirs.
@@littlestworkshop I wonder why that company chose that finish for a work table that would remain submerged.
35:40 Euro-Mir Theme in the backround. Nice. :)
You enjoy that you should really check out HAHN AUTOMATION rhienböllen Germany and they have a location in Cincinnati that operates the exact same way as in Germany. I used to work there and kept trying to get John to come.
We used to make small Vespel® parts. Very expensive material. One cut only.
hey John, I feel your pain when you see those skylights in these factories in Europe but not here in USA. Buildings in USA were LEEDS certified without a single skylight. This is not new though. Look at the old photos of the early FORD Motor Co. and you will find hundreds of the roof windows. Something you should seriously look at that will blow your mind is the German PassivHaus or Swiss Minergie-P concept for you place.
Do you guys sell you pivot bearings separate? I'd love to buy a pair I'm looking to put bearings in my Recon 1
We have one of the Kern-Micro 5axis at our company, It is a great, accurate piece of machinery, it can hold 0.00005" all day long. unfortunately it had some manufacturing defects that accounted for a bad experience and as result our company will be buying Yasdas instead.
Great tour.
instead of getting it fixed you switched systems? Seems like the most complicated and expensive way out.
Doesn't this make you rethink the North American business model? I'm wishing we can embrace work ethic and customer service like the Swiss. 👍 Great vid John.
Now THAT is some German engineering. Temperature control of every axis down to .1 Kelvin? That's ridiculous, almost unnecessarily above and beyond. Seems like an awesome place to work. You can really tell they care so much about their customers AND their employees.
Side note. Dude has a gnarly cow lick going on the back of his head haha
Seen this video 20+ times ...still wery cool and I am not even a maschinest
Thats what CNC machines need...fully automatic tool offset measuring/input.
#Goals
16:50 The difference is that in NA the dollar is the bottom line, minimum in maximum out profit is the deciding factor in success. As for other places pride in ones work and longevity is the goal.Not to buy a new machine in 5 years but to keep that same machine top of the line for as long as possible. Na will eventually be nothing but idea makers for the rest of the world to execute due to sheer excessive profit mongering
Its cute that they want to keep it small to manage The process better but i still think you can expand The produktion and keep The quality with the right management. If hermle and haas etc could do it kern can do it too.
It's not a question of mechanical quality but of customer relationship quality and quality of life for everyone who works within the company. Size kills both of those so fast.
I have watched a few shop tours but you're never shown the design team.
Is this company an outgrowth or related to the Kern theodilites? I have used a Kern instrument. This would make sense after making machines to build accurate survey instruments.
Accidental.
No it is not the same company. Your kern is from Switzerland from Kern & Co. AG. in Aarau.
do Tormach and kern pay you guys?
33:45 +GF+ agieCharmillies EDM and system 3R FTW!
it kind seems like youve been inspired to make your shop a similar style like this
Happy wipe happy life
This is how I remember Germany. I worked there for a few years for a British company. The contrast was stark. On the whole the German companies seemed efficient, well equipped and most workers seemed happy and purposeful.
In contrast the company I worked for was slap dash, poorly equipped and a miserable place to work.
German Engineering at its finest
hahaha... how great.... you start out on a hermle mill
I think that once you have worked for Kern, it would be really difficult to go work for some other companies. First of all, each individual feels that he matters to the team and his work is acknowledged. Secondly, 15 microns of standard part tolerance in some other companies would feel like prostitution........if I ever were to get 15 microns on a part repeatedly, I would open the champagne.....
What do you mean your parts are too big for that pallet? All of your parts except for the blades, handles, and pen tubes, will fit. Your parts are very small, for the most part, except for those 3 parts.
But those are the mill parts right?
I like your videos however we could do without all the close ups of your mug.
Americans can only dream of such precision.
patriotismsucks maybe its time for a visit to haas to get a comparison? 🤪
@@henrikforsberg683 Haas is really far from this level.
Windows means cheap lighting.
Sean Roberts do you really think that big modern windows used in countries that have cold winters are cheaper than powering LED lighting?
Besides a higher heating bill they may very well pay for themselves in happier, more productive employees.
As a species, human beings have still been "outdoors" for much longer than we have been under bad indoors lighting and natural light does wonders for the mood of quite a lot of people.
@@AntiVaganza it's truly underappreciated by people who own the means of production.
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Man... The dude with the black beard that is always talking is annoying!!! Lol
who is captain obvious and the incoherent rambler? stop asking him anything
I think his name is Justin.
Maybe sleep more complain less ok?